Recall Register

Mercedes Benz S430: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the Mercedes Benz S430, model years 2000 to 2006. NHTSA has 194 complaints on file for this model line. 3 of the 7 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 20000
  2. 20010
  3. 20020
  4. 20030
  5. 20040
  6. 20050
  7. 20060
Mercedes Benz S430: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2006 Mercedes Benz S430 NHTSA page01243%
2005 Mercedes Benz S430 NHTSA page01140%
2004 Mercedes Benz S430 NHTSA page01865%
2003 Mercedes Benz S43002694%
2002 Mercedes Benz S430031112%
2001 Mercedes Benz S430073263%
2000 Mercedes Benz S430 NHTSA page02383%

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

282 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Mercedes Benz S430: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System375.9106
Suspension109.931
Exterior Lighting85.124
Power Train60.317
Vehicle Speed Control49.614
Interior Lighting49.614
Structure3911
Visibility31.99
Air Bags24.87
Unknown or Other24.87

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mercedes Benz S430, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Mercedes Benz S430, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2015, with 28 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Mercedes Benz: all 284 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mercedes Benz S430: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercedes-benz/s430/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Mercedes Benz S430 model years have the most recall campaigns?
No model year of this line has a recall campaign in the NHTSA file.
Which Mercedes Benz S430 model year has the most complaints?
The 2001 model year, with 73 of the 194 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mercedes Benz S430 name?
Electrical System: 375.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Suspension: 109.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Exterior Lighting: 85.1 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Mercedes Benz S430?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.